Pompey is a town in the southeast part of Onondaga County, New York, United ... John Edison Sweet, engineer and professor at Cornell University, and a ... Hills Corners – A location near the east town line on US 20, east of Pompey Center.

This land was set aside as payment for those soldiers from New York State who ... cabin in 1804 on a farm along Route 20, west of the hamlet of Pompey Centre. ... John Sweet was an engineer, a professor at Cornell University and a Dean at ...

When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a...

The significant events in New York State history are well known to educators, students and New Yorkers alike. But often, the role that women played in these events has been overlooked. In this book, members of the American Association of University Women in New York State have meticulously researched the lives and actions of some of New York's...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative rea...

19, 1847, at Pompey Center, son of Amos of Pompsy, N. Y. Chloe died after 1857 in Wisconsin. Their children were — Emily Henrietta, Philo F(arn- am?), John Atwell, James Atwell. It is supposed that John Newman married before he m Chloe ...

This past Tuesday, I made a research visit to the Pompey Historical Society, at Pompey Center, New York. This small, but very active, group of local history enthusiasts have quite a collection of documents, photos, and artifacts, that tell the story of the town of Pompey and other surrounding small rural communities.

Franklin Charles Knowlton, age 86, of 1216 Daisy Hollow Road, Dryden passed away Friday, February 25, 2011 at his residence after an illness. Frank was born March 14, 1924 in Pompey Center, NY a son of the late Charles and Helen Hitchcock Knowlton.